Largest Counter Terrorism Raid In Australian History Launched To Prevent Public Beheadings By ISIS Operatives

September 17, 2014

Police swoop on Sydney, Brisbane homes in terror raids

by: Paul Maley and Dan Box September 18 2014

A SERIES of anti-terrorism raids were sparked by intelligence reports that Islamic State was planning a public execution in Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott says.

Details of the planned attack have emerged in the wake of the biggest anti-terrorism operation in Australia's history, involving hundreds of police officers in co-ordinated raids across Sydney and Brisbane this morning.

Mr Abbott was briefed on the police raid on Wednesday night, which included intelligence that public beheadings were planned. "The exhortations, quite direct exhortations, were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country," he told reporters...

'Police believe that this group that we have executed this operation on today had the intention, and had started to carry out planning, to commit violent acts here in Australia,' AFP Acting Commissioner Andrew Colvin told reporters in Sydney.

'Those violent acts particularly related to random acts against members of the public.'

Police sources revealed more details to Daily Mail Australia, that the plot involved abducting a member of the public in Sydney and beheading them. ABC reported that the abducted member of the public would be draped in an Islamic State flag and beheaded on camera..."